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Film and Gender (Hardcover, New)
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Film and Gender (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
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Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that
despite 'the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the
cinema ... woman as woman is largely absent', the relationship of
cinema to the construction of gender identities and gendered
pleasures has been a central concern within Film Studies. Bringing
together the political concerns of second-wave feminism and the
dizzying developments in theorizing about representation, culture,
and society, early work-as exemplified by Johnston's
writing-changed radically the nature of Film Studies and the issues
which it would address. Later scholars attended to concerns about
sexuality, drawing on queer theory; and race and ethnicity, often
influenced by postcolonialism. Most recently, Global Cinema Studies
has sought to refocus these concerns yet again, whilst
'postfeminism' has questioned many of the assumptions on which Film
Studies work on gender has rested. Film and Gender is a new title
in Routledge's Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and
Cultural Studies. It meets the need for an authoritative reference
work to enable users to navigate and make sense of the subject's
large literature, its history, and its continuing centrality within
Film Studies. Compiled by Sue Thornham, whose work includes
Passionate Detachments: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory
(1997) and Feminist Film Theory: A Reader (1999), and Niall
Richardson, author of The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman (2009) and
Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture
(2010), this eagerly awaited collection brings together in four
volumes the foundational and the very best and most provocative
scholarship on film and gender. Film and Gender includes a full
index and comprehensive introductions, newly written by the
editors, which place the collected material in its historical and
intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is
destined to be valued by scholars and advanced students as a vital
research tool.
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